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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsExpert explains how Trump has exploited our legal infrastructure to advance true fascism...
Expert explains how Trump has exploited our legal infrastructure to advance true fascism in Americahttps://www.rawstory.com/2020/08/expert-explains-how-trump-has-exploited-our-legal-infrastructure-to-advance-true-fascism-in-america/
The debate over whether Donald Trump is a fascist is no longer confined to a narrow segment of the far left. It is now out in the open. Even mainstream columnists like the New York Times Michelle Goldberg and the Washington Posts Ishaan Tharoor and influential Democratic politicians, such as Oregon Senator Ron Wyden, have come to use the F word to describe our 45th commander in chief.
Although it is an emotionally loaded and often misused term, fascism is as real today as a political and cultural force, a set of core beliefs, and a mode of governance as it was when Benito Mussolini founded the Italian Fascist Party in 1919 and declared himself dictator six years later.
Nor is fascism a foreign phenomenon restricted to South American banana republics or failed European states. As University of London professor Sarah Churchwell explained in a June 22 essay published in the New York Review of Books, fascism has deep roots in the United States, spanning the decades from the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1920s to the rise of the German-American Bund in the 1930s, the ascendance of Depression-era demagogues like Huey Long, and the election of Donald Trump in 2016.
Churchwells article is aptly titled, American Fascism: It Has Happened Here. In it, she offers a working definition of fascism, noting that fascist movements, both past and present in America and abroad, are united by conspicuous features [that] are recognizably shared. These include:
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Expert explains how Trump has exploited our legal infrastructure to advance true fascism... (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Aug 2020
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(3,888 posts)1. Thanks for the link.
A good read.